Below are excerpts of A.J. Barker's letter to Gophers Head Football Coach Jerry Kill. The full Tumblr post can be found here.

"There's nothing special about me?

I'm a dime a dozen?

You don't know what "fucked up things happened to me to screw me up so much as a person"?

My stock fell as a person since I got injured?

You had 5 of me at Northern Illinois?

You say I'll never earn a scholarship under you? That I don't deserve one?

And then you followed this outburst of rage with an attempt to love me in the most manipulative, deceitful way possible.

You "love" me?

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"My parents raised me in the most honorable and noble way possible, they never took from me. They never lied to me, or hurt me. There weren't any "fucked up" things that happened to me growing up and it's a disgrace to the effort my parents put forward every single day they were around me to insinuate anything of that sort. My parents and friends are extremely proud of me. They don't view me as screwed up."

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"It was during this discussion that you came over and exploded on me in front of the entire team in our indoor facility. "YOU DON'T FUCKING GET TO TELL THE TRAINER WHAT YOU DO!" followed by a 20 minute tyraid where you attacked everything about me, from an athlete to my character as a person. I took every word of it replying faithfully "Yes sir.

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"But don't be confused by this explanation into thinking this is a quick/irrational decision based solely around Thursday's event. Last spring before the spring game I was called a faggot for my spiritual views by Coach Reeves where other players on the team heard him say it."